App Store Update: July 2

Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention.

Note:The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.

Best of 2015 So Far – Day 4

Welcome to a special App Store Update week, iOS owners! 2015 is halfway over as of this week, so we're doing a little mid-year evaluation on the state of the App Store so far. Looking back across the past six months, we've picked out 15 games that we consider to be among the best new Game Debuts of 2015 to this point. We'll be presenting three picks a day for each day this week, so come back every day to see which apps made the cut!

No ranking these against each other or anything like that – we'll go with a purely alphabetical presentation of the 15 we've picked. Rest assured that every game featured this week is more than worth your while to download on your iPad or iPhone!

Here are our Day 4 picks!

King of Thieves – (Freemium)

The developers at ZeptoLab made themselves known through the massively popular Cut the Rope games, and with King of Thieves they've branched out into entirely new territory. This competitive multiplayer platformer has you trying to steal other players' gold by jumping and spinning through their lairs filled with traps. (Meanwhile, you've got to protect your own loot by designing your own level.)

The launch of Mortal Kombat X a few months ago was a massive event for console gamers, but what might have been the most shocking part of it was the seriously impressive and fully-featured mobile edition that launched alongside those more traditional home versions. If you missed it, give it a second look now:

Lucas M. Thomas has been compiling IGN's App Store Updates since 2012 – and when he's not doing that, he's compiling magazine pages as the Editor-in-Chief of NF Magazine (a.k.a. Nintendo Force). You can follow him on Twitter, @lucasmthomas.